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Re: [BUG] git bash-completion is incorrect for "git pull origin mas<tab>" if the ssh key is encrypted

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Mar 22, 2012, 18:45 UTC
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Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> writes:
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>> I would rather think that the completion should ask for refs only when
>> dealing with local repositories, without going over network, whether the
>> query involves authentication or not.
>
> It depends on what "network" is. When the network is just a machine on
> the same Gb-ethernet LAN, completion can still be useful (only if you
> have password-less authentication of course). I don't use it much with
> Git, but I find it handy that ZSH completes rsync remote pathes for
> example.

Yeah, I agree it depends on your latency-tolerance (which implies that this begs for an "I am impatient, do not go over network" switch).

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  1. Hong XuMar 22, 2012
  2. Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-SzmekMar 22, 2012
  3. Johannes SixtMar 22, 2012
  4. Hong XuMar 22, 2012
  5. Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-SzmekMar 22, 2012
  6. Hong XuMar 22, 2012
  7. Junio C HamanoMar 22, 2012
  8. Matthieu MoyMar 22, 2012
  9. Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-SzmekMar 22, 2012
  10. Junio C HamanoMar 22, 2012
  11. Hong XuMar 22, 2012

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